From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 03:09:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA22454 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 03:09:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-22-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA22449 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 03:09:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id NAA15237; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:02:55 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199811251102.NAA15237@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-Reply-To: <199811251001.SAA03218@hsw.generalresources.com> from Christopher Hall at "Nov 25, 98 06:01:48 pm" To: hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:02:48 +0200 (SAT) Cc: abial@nask.pl, hsw@acm.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Hall wrote: > > In message , And > rzej Bialecki writes: > >Let me add yet another question to this: is there any way to boot FreeBSD > >from DOS partition, using /boot/loader? > > > >(I suspect it's not possible in both cases, though...) > > > >Andrzej Bialecki > > on the 1998/Nov 3.0 CDROM there is an install.bat that says > fbsdboot.exe -D kernel > I wonder if this can be used? I will try it and see. The fbsdboot.exe program runs in a DOS environment. You can use it to boot FreeBSD from DOS itself (though it works best when DOS is not running in V86 mode; and often doesn't work at all). You certainly can boot a FreeBSD kernel off a FAT/VFAT/FAT32 file system from /boot/loader. Currently, however, the kernel tends to get confused because it thinks it was booted from a UFS partition. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message